How can Ghana increase its use of domestically sourced construction inputs?
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Interviews & Viewpoints | Nana Kwame Bediako, CEO, Kwarleyz Group: Interview from The Report: Ghana 2020
Articles & Analysis | Infrastructure development and public-private partnerships drive an increase in construction activity in Ghana from The Report: Ghana 2020
Ghana’s construction sector is growing, led by the development of affordable housing and critical infrastructure such as roads, railways, ports, hospitals and schools. It has also been bolstered by a steadily growing economy, which has since 2017 outperformed the global economy. Expansion is expected to continue, with a GDP growth rate of 6.8...
Chapter | Construction & Real Estate from The Report: Ghana 2020
The government of President Nana Akufo-Addo assumed power on a promise to take “Ghana Beyond Aid”, and is pushing ahead with initiatives to formalise the economy, diversify its manufacturing base and overhaul its taxation structure. Ghana’s ability to retain fiscal discipline will be tested, with election-related expenditure expected to increase in the run-up to the 2020 poll.
Articles & Analysis | Urbanisation and growing populations incentivise emerging markets' governments to solve housing deficits from The Report: Tunisia 2019
Urbanisation is a mega-trend redefining contemporary life in both developed and emerging markets across the world. This mass rural-to-urban movement of people and expansion of cities to absorb formerly isolated villages is a relatively recent phenomenon, at least in the developing world. According to the UN, in 1950, 751m people lived in urban...
Articles & Analysis | Rising demand and high commercial yields offer recovery for Tunisia's construction and real estate sectors from The Report: Tunisia 2019
Driven by a growing middle class, rising urbanisation and some of the most attractive prices in the Mediterranean region, Tunisia’s real estate sector offers some of the best potential in North Africa. However, inflation caused by the depreciation of the Tunisian dinar over the last two years, as well as central bank interest rate hikes, have...